Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is really concerned to increase the number of homes available to rent , why will he not recognise that of the 700,000 empty properties , 100,000 are in the council sector and 600,000 are privately owned ? |
| 2 | A Consumers ' Association report found that of the 32 tour operator 's policies surveyed , all but four fell short of its recommended levels of cover . |
| 3 | In a study of his four published Song Books , I found that of the forty-two tunes I could identify ( four I could not ) , some 60 per cent are ‘ traditional ’ , mostly of rural origin ( the bulk Scottish ) , while only about 12 per cent come from comic music hall songs and about 25 per cent from bourgeois sources ( parlour ballad , light opera ) . |
| 4 | A recent Institute of Directors ' survey of 200 successful female executives found that of the 87 per cent who claimed to have encountered career obstacles not experienced by male colleagues , difficulty with childcare , at 37 per cent , was the biggest factor . |
| 5 | Here they gave poetry readings in the 800-seat auditorium ; a measure of the man he was becoming and of the distinguished company he kept . |
| 6 | Resource owners ' initial ignorance of the kinds of commodities consumers will buy and of the relative prices which can in principle be obtained for these commodities gradually diminishes . |
| 7 | Inside it is richly decorated and of the typical open style dictated by the Jesuit Order . |
| 8 | Children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were included because of the current understanding , based on immunological studies , that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease . |
| 9 | ‘ Pieter Huistra , Dale Gordon and Oleg Kuznetsov are n't included because of the three foreigner rule but we still have four non-Scots , so one will have to make way . |
| 10 | This was included because of the different sensitivity of the top and bottom of the optical RAM . |
| 11 | Alternatively , it is possible that the decline occurred because of the economic conditions of the inter-war years . |
| 12 | The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 occurred because of the Japanese desire to establish a presence in the kingdom of Korea and the Chinese attempt to thwart this ambition . |
| 13 | Job losses additional to ‘ structural shifts ’ occurred because of the relative status , and often age of product , of branch factories within their respective multi-plant firms , and only rarely because of their absolute location in Britain . |
| 14 | Clashes also occurred because of the rapacious actions of some Russians , because of the infringement of native hunting territories , and the settlement of peasants on pastures essential to the yearly migrations of pastoralists ' herds . |
| 15 | This interaction occurred because of the very fragmentation experienced by the country . |
| 16 | If you were strong you would put up with it , even if you had to cough and splutter because of the bad air around you . |
| 17 | SCO said it felt no need to formally resign because of the loose construction of the initiative . |
| 18 | Hammam said Jones was a Sheffield United player at the time the video was compiled and that Wimbledon were unjustly being made to suffer because of the suspended sentence . |
| 19 | The humans are slowly dying because of the radioactive dust caused by a human war . |
| 20 | The endoscopical differential diagnosis comprised lymphoreticular malignancy , such as α chain disease or a non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma , while clinically sarcoidosis was considered because of the previous medical history . |
| 21 | And some argue that the underlying position is worse than the figures suggest because of the eight changes made to the method of recording unemployment during the period . |
| 22 | This area was specifically targeted because of the high level of involvement of people living there in road accidents . |
| 23 | A slight shift in the age distribution would be expected because of the increasing prevalence of non-operated peptic ulcer patients in the population . |
| 24 | Secured stock has the advantage that a lower yield will be expected because of the lower risk , but it may have an adverse effect upon gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow . |
| 25 | Trial number two has collapsed because of the mental and emotional state of Roger Seelig . |
| 26 | Er there was a lady fell over about two months ago on that footpath just at the beginning of the winter , and the cathedral council offered to pay for the installation of a light and what we did we contributed seventy seven pounds which is sixty including V A T to enable a second light to be installed because of the two steps on that footpath , one at each end , erm |
| 27 | Short-wave radio communications are disrupted and the positional accuracy obtainable from satellite navigation systems is degraded because of the disturbed state of the ionosphere . |
| 28 | Following a break in nursing practice there may be an understandable hesitation and anxiety about returning because of the inevitable changes that will have taken place . |
| 29 | If a country was facing a payments deficit , then short-term capital outflows would tend to increase because of the potential capital gains accruing to holders if that country devalued its currency . |
| 30 | The significance of the Carmelite school has been greatly exaggerated because of the widespread misunderstanding that the Carmelite Whitefriary stood on the site of the hospital , an important monastic site with a splendid fourteenth-century gate . |